A flaw in Apple’s latest operating system allows anyone to gain access to a computer without a password and have powerful control of administrator rights. Engineers at the tech company are rushing to fix the bug, which affects MacOS High Sierra and was first flagged in an Apple support forum two weeks ago. The bug was publicly exposed by the Turkish developer Lemi Ergin last night. He found that he could gain full access to a machine by entering the username “root”, leaving the password field empty and hitting the enter key several times in succession. Security experts have described the flaw as a “howler” and a significant embarrassment for the tech company, which is attempting to fix the bug before it can be exploited…

Source: The Times November 29, 2017 12:00 UTC